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Community voices: North Hawaiʽi non-profits / Special to North Hawai'i News / October 2015

8/13/2016

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PictureNKCRC's office and welcome center.
    Like a voyaging canoe, our island’s spirit fosters lokahi (unity) and it is this spirit that has created the broad network of non-profit organizations (NPO) in North Hawaiʽi. Currently 166 strong, NPOs cover a wide range of projects geared towards creating thriving healthy communities by providing programs to connect with and perpetuate indigenous culture; that enrich educational experiences; and promote the health and wellness of both people and the environment.  
     The relationship between the NPOs of North Hawaiʽi and the communities they serve can be likened to that of a skilled gardener to a thriving garden. The aware gardener lets the garden speak and then responds by creating the necessary conditions for growth. This is at the heart of NPO umbrella organizations such as the Kohala Center, Friends of the Future (FOF) and North Kohala Community Resource Center (NKCRC).  “We don't tell the community what it needs. The community comes to us and tells us what they think they need,” says Christina Richardson, NKCRC’s executive director.

PictureFriends of the Future is located above Tutu's House
The Island Difference
    Mainland communities with a broader tax base fill many of the needs that are answered by North Hawaiʽi NPOs. “We fulfill a lot of service roles that on the mainland or other parts of the world would be fulfilled by either municipal governments, health departments or parks and recreation. Non-profits take on a lot of functions here that would ordinarily be provided by a different structure,” says Susan Maddox, FOF’s executive director.
       Primary to how NPOs of North Hawaiʽi operate is acknowledging community intelligence. The FOF began in 1991, inspired by its founder Kenneth Francis Brown, great grandson of John Papa I’i, advisor to King Kamehameha IV. For Brown, community health had a broad definition and was based in ancient Hawaiian knowledge systems and practices.
       “Kenneth Brown felt that the community can best determine what they need for health and wellness. The foundation of FOF came about from a series of conversations [Brown had] over the years to see what kinds of ideas might bubble up about community health,” says Maddox.  
       Tutu’s House is FOF’s longest running program and has served as an educational, health and wellness resource since 1994. Other programs include the areas of cultural preservation through oral histories with Hui Kuapa; conservation and agriculture with the Waipiʽo Valley Community Circle; and education with the Hawaiʽi Island Leadership Series, Earl’s Garage and Baby Steps.

PictureMatt Hamabata with staff members Cortney Okumura, Stella Caban and Nancy Redfeather at their new campus on Kohala Mountain. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KOHALA CENTER)
    The Kohala Center, which began in 2000, was based on a community health survey that asked: What would make us a happier, healthier community?
​    “Public health folks went out to the community in and around Waimea and despite all the dreadful problems we struggle with (diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence), people didn't ask for more social services, they asked for social change,” says Matt Hamabata, recently retired director of the Kohala Center. “We didn't need money. It just needed a change of perspective. It's about valuing ourselves as local people,” he adds.
       The Kohala Center now has eight areas of support including educational programs such as the Malaʽai Culinary Garden and Hawai'i Island School Garden Network; agriculture with the Beginning Farmer Rancher Development Program and Hawai'i Public Seed Initiative; and conservation with the Kohala Watershed Partnership and the Kahaluʽu Bay Education Center. 

PictureNKCRC Executive Director Christina Richardson with Office Manager Juanita Rivera and Associate Director Megan Solis. (PHOTO COURTESY OF NKCRC)
Hui: Come Together, Make Connections
    Many hard working people, infused with the spirit of Aloha, have come together to create the umbrella organizations that facilitate the plethora of NPOs in North Hawai'i. The North Kohala Community Resource Center was born from the vision of an umbrella organization that would serve all aspects of North Kohala community life, that Bob Martin shared with a group of concerned residents whose “hearts were in the community”. The NKCRC now has an array of programs under their umbrella that includes agriculture, conservation, education and cultural preservation.
     “We have helped put music, art and yoga in the public schools. We've got some great equine programs that we do including Lio Lapaʽau and the Kohala Equine Education Center. They're all about preserving the paniolo culture, making sure the kids can learn to ride and to understand how important horses are in our history, our story,” says Richardson.

PictureFriends of the Future’s Executive Director Susan Maddox
      North Hawaiʽi NPOs also advocate for communities by creating bridges between community voices and broader social contexts. “One of the things that is so exciting to me about The Kohala Center is that all of our staff, our board, recognize community intelligence and tap into it, foster it and connect it with the best institutions on this island, in the state and nationally,” says Hamabata. 
     But it’s not just about seeking grant monies. Beyond finding funding, it’s seeing points of connection that tap into community expertise and knowledge that make North Hawaiʽi NPOs effective beyond all expectations. “Non-profits tend to work together and network, creating something larger than any one (NPO) could individually. And in the FOF’s case, a number of programs that have come through have found interesting connections between themselves that wouldn't have necessarily happened if each of those programs were its own independent 501 c3,” Maddox says. 

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     North Hawaiʽi NPOs have attracted notice outside the island community. “I have funders on Oʽahu now who come to talk to me about going to other small typical communities like this in the state and teach them how to create a non-profit,” says Richardson.
      On the world stage, Kohala Center’s new Executive Director Kamana Beamer has entered the international arena. “He's just created a research agreement with the food and agriculture organization of the U.N. and has already been to Rome and Bogota,” says Hamabata.
        It seems that the ancestral spirit of the land has spoken through the island communities, and the North Hawai'i NPOs have listened and responded. “The Hawaiians have always thrived at the intersection of human and natural systems. So if we put those two things together, the island planet and this fantastic knowledge system about how to live well in kinship with nature, we can become a model for the world,” Hamabata concludes.

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The path with heart: Kohala Center’s Matt Hamabata   / Special to North Hawai'i News / October 2015

8/12/2016

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    Matt Hamabata, recently retired as Kohala Center director, has had a life of scholarship and community service that began in idyllic, rural Kaua'i.  “My friends and I would spend weekends way up in the valley. We actually had hukilau back then and you'd jump in and come home with fish for the family. You didn't have a lot of things but you had nature to play in,” Hamabata says.
    Hamabata’s paternal grandparents left Kilauea Plantation on Kaua'i and moved to Honolulu and eventually Matt followed when he was enrolled at Mid Pacific Institute. “When you're in the seventh or eighth grade, a few kids would take an exam and then they would be sent to boarding school at Mid Pac. We were given the opportunity for an old fashioned college prep education,” Hamabata says.
    After graduation, Hamabata spent the next 20 years on the East Coast. “Local kids get sent off to New England, and one thing leads to another, you end up building your career back there,” Hamabata says. He earned a Bachelors of Sociology from Cornell University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology and East Asian Studies from Harvard University. Hamabata then went on to teach at Yale University, later becoming the Dean of Haverford College in Philadelphia. But his heart still belonged to Hawaii. “I missed how connected people were to each other and to the environment,” Hamabata says.  
    Hamabata eventually made his way to Los Angeles and was a senior staff member for the California Endowment. “Our mission at that time was to improve the health of all Californians. We used funding  and worked as community organizers to build political capacity. We were concerned with projects that were environmentally problematic,” Hamabata says.
    Hamabata found his way home to the islands when he was hired to consult with a Waimea leadership group led by Earl Bakken, who were puzzling over responses to a community survey that became the basis for the Kohala Center, began in 2000. “People didn’t ask for more social services, they asked for social change. Diversity, meaningful work that pays living wages and educational opportunities,” says Hamabata.
    By the end of the consultancy, Hamabata was on his way home for a life changing experience. “Once moving home to Hawaiʽi and looking at those surveys, it became clear to me that I knew nothing,” Hamabata says.
    Wondering how to proceed, he was fortunate to have Kekuhi Kanakaʽole Kanahele and Noe Noe Wong-Wilson as guides. The first grant monies were used to create a think tank of university administrators and scientists. “Kekuhi, Noe Noe and I agreed early on that we would always first orient any partners to Hawai'iʽs cultural and spiritual landscape as well as its natural landscape. We got them up before dawn and then we went up to Puʽu Huluhulu junction (Mauna Kea summit road). We began with Kekuhi chanting and the sun coming up. And as the sun came up, the mist turned pink and the clouds parted and Mauna Kea appeared. Stunning. And when she finished, Mauna Kea disappeared. And then Kekuhi said to them, 'I'd like to introduce you to my community.' All these folks were wheeling around, looking for a village and then it dawned on everyone that what she meant were the mists, the pu'u, lava, the birds, the ferns and it was a dramatic shift in world view,” Hamabata says. 
    That shift has lived on in Hamabata’s heart and informs all of the Kohala Center’s projects. Over the last 15 years, Hamabata, “an administrator at heart”, has left a solid infrastructure, his legacy to our evolving island community. 

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Mālama Honua Quilt Project From Hawai'i Island to the World Wide Voyage / Special to North Hawaii News / January 2016

8/12/2016

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PictureBryan Watai, Bobbi Caputo, Dot Uchima and Chelsey Dickson played important roles in creating the Malama Honua Quilt Project. Additional participants not pictured here are Wendi Roehrig, Janice Gail, Edith Kawai and Nancy Botticelli. (PHOTO BY GEORGE FULLER SPECIAL TO NORTH HAWAII NEWS)
     Quilts are a symbol of many hands working together to create beauty, warmth, maps to freedom and   stories of time and place. A new quilt, created in support of the World Wide Voyage, “Mālama Honua” (help the earth) tells the mālama honua stories of seven local artists.
     The idea for the Mālama Honua Quilt Project started with small flags made by the children who welcomed the Hōkūleʽa voyaging canoe into Hilo Harbor. “One of their projects with the community when they come into port is to have these peace flags. When they first did their sail around Hawai'i, they stopped in Hilo and my children participated in making the flags and they had a line they hung them all up on. Some of the communities patched together the peace flags and made quilts.  That's where the idea came from,” says Chelsey Dickson, project navigator. 
    Sponsored by the Hawaiian Civic Club, Waimea and in collaboration with Topstitch, Dickson created kits containing a piece of fabric, an embroidery circle and a description of what it means to “malama honua”. 
    “I created the kits and I took them to artists so our community can create something beautiful with the intention of spreading the word to take care of our earth and support the message of the World Wide Voyage,” says Dickson.
    Seven artists, Wendi Roehrig, Bryan Watai, Bobbi Caputo, Dot Uchima, Janice Gail, Edith Kawai and one farmer, Nancy Botticelli, told their malama honua stories by creating quilt panels. The panels were then taken to Liz Moiha at Topstitch who put them together to finish the quilt.
    “I took all the pieces and the descriptions to Liz and laid them out. She came up with different types of fabrics. Some of them looked like the ocean or looked like the colors of the sky,” says Dickson.    
    Roehrig’s story tells of a long connection to Kīholo and its restoration. “Taking care of the planet, my first thought goes to Kīholo because we have been working on the fish pond restoration for a couple of years. That’s why I had the hands scooping up all the junk and showing the life coming out. One time we did actually scoop a bunch of that junk out with our hands,” says Roehrig.
    Bryan Watai grew up in Waimea and spent many childhood hours roaming Waipi'o Valley. His panel tells the story of taro cultivation and the traditional sustainable practices used by the ancestors who, “Cultivated taro without destroying the land. The Hawaiians used the water source to go through the land and feed the plants and then released it to return to the ocean,” says Watai.
    When Bobbi Caputo was invited to participate, she felt acknowledged for her art. It became a “learning point” about giving back or the passing “from one hand to another”, that she depicted in her mālama honua panel. “What we take from the land, we give back. What we take from one generation, we give back. It goes on and on,” says Caputo.
    Hawai’i Civic Club member, Dot Uchima, chose to do a panel with a petroglyph family working together. “If families work together to mālama honua, if that can happen, what a better world we’d be in,” said Uchima. Her other panel depicts Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa with Makali’i glittering in the background. “Makali’i is made up of Hawai'iloa (first to arrive) and his navigators. Their resources and their lifestyle is something we can hope to become and the mountains protect and sustain us,” says Uchima.  
    Hōkūle`a is shown sailing among the continents and nations in Janice Gail’s piece Many Nations, One Planet: A Universal Responsibility. “I mālama honua by recycling and repurposing everything possible and strive not to waste,” says Gail.
    Edith Kawai’s panel is about alignment with the earth’s piko (umbilical) and mindfulness. It’s a view looking up into the earth’s piko, symbolizing the need to conserve the earth’s resources. “I am mindful of water usage, use solar energy and cut down on petroleum fuel and electricity,” says Kawai.
    The Mālama Honua Quilt will perhaps inspire more efforts to raise awareness. “I wanted to bring people together to create an inspirational piece to show the community. I’m so thankful for the people involved and the idea and the mission behind it,” says Dickson.
    Like Makaliʽi magic, the Mālama Honua Quilt, currently on display at Kahilu Theatre in the large gallery, is an example of what can be done when people work together towards a common vision.

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Makahiki 2016: New life for the land, the people / Special to North Hawai'i News / January 2016

8/11/2016

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PictureMakahiki runners greeting the sun. (Photo: Sarah Anderson)
      As the sun sank into the sea on Nov. 18, the constellation of Makali'i (Pleiades) rose in the east and with the new moon on Dec. 11, the ancient season and celebrations of Makahiki began – a time for rejuvenation and connection.
    Two island community events are helping reach back to traditional Makahiki practices, bringing them to life as contemporary guides to wholesome living.
     For the last 15 years Makahiki has been celebrated by students and staff at Kanu o ka
`Āina Public Charter School, growing into a community celebration at Anuenue Playground in Waimea 10 years ago. And for the last two years, a circle island relay run organized by Lanakila Mangauil has brought new life to the traditional procession practiced in the past.
     All travel kapu, or restrictions, are lifted during Makahiki, meaning folks could travel to other districts and villages to socialize and participate in competitive games, an essential part of the celebration. “Everyone dressed in their best. It was like the time when the birds start to show off, you flaunt your feathers. It was a time of expo and everybody was showing off their best. Farmers, fisherman, craftsmen, hula, chants … all of that. You bring the best of the best,” says Mangauil.  

PictureAuhea Puhi, Malia Nae’ole-Takasato, Keala Kahuanui, Nicole Anakalea and Pomai Bertelmann. (Photo, Nancy Erger)
     Cultural practitioner and educator Keala Kahuanui has been an integral part of the Makahiki Moku o Keawe celebration that takes place this Saturday, Jan. 16 beginning at 7 a.m. Leading up to the event, students practice and hone their gaming skills.
     “Different teachers and organizations ask me to come and teach about Makahiki. When you explain that these are games that our kings and queens have played for hundreds of years, that they are more than just rolling a stone or throwing a spear and how these games teach you lessons like focus and intention, they start to take you really seriously,” says Kahuanui.

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     The games, which begin after the close of the ceremony, are a way for students to test their strength and skills. “[It’s] a safe space where they can experiment and try different things, continually surrounded with our Hawaiian values of aloha, kokua, mahalo and mālama,” says Kahuanui. “It's almost a level playing field for non-athletic kids. There's something for everybody,” she adds.

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Over the years, the Makahiki Moku o Keawe has grown in participants and created a legacy. “There’s more participation and those who were learning in elementary are running it now. They graduated, they believe in it. It's part of their tradition, their culture. Parents are wanting to participate too,” says Kahuanui. “The parents and grandparents and the uncles and aunties are cheering on the little ones. And then it flips in the afternoon and the little ones are cheering on the uncles and aunties. We even had a grandmother play last year in the decathlon,” she adds.

PictureLanakila Mangauil with Lono image.
    Makahiki was a time of tribute, when the island chief and his entourage traveled around the island to collect the offerings left at the ahu, stone altars, which marked the boundary of the ahupuaa (land division). 
    “The chiefs would come around and collect their taxes. But really that was an observation. When the chiefs did a circuit of the island, what they were really doing was looking at the productivity of each district. The chiefs would select what they wanted and in a gesture they would give everything back to the people,” says Mangauil. 
    Inspired by the prayer runs of Native American Indian tribes, Mangauil decided to bring the Makahiki procession alive with a run around Hawai'i Island, focusing on the health of the land and the people. “It's about best practices. What did they do back then and how can we apply these things today?” says Mangauil.

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     A ki (statue) was carved with the image of a new Lono (Hawaiian god): Lono Ke Kukini Pule (Lono of the Prayer Run). The four-day run began in Honoka'a in the pre-dawn where participants chanted the sun up before beginning the first leg, which took them to the King Kamehameha statue in Hilo. There they were met by the Royal Order of Kamehameha. A total of 76 miles, day one ended at Nāmakanipaio campground.

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    From day two, which started on the rim of Kilauea crater, the runners touched down in the communities of Na'alehu and Miloli'i, making stops on succeeding days at Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau, Hulihe'e Palace, Pu`ukoholā
Heiau and King Kamehameha statue in Kapa'au.
    Canoes from Miloli'i and Keoua carried the Lono from Miloli'i to Kealakekua Bay. (right)

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    “From there we went all the way up and came down Kohala Mountain Road. By the time we got to the bottom by Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, there were students there and they picked up the statue,” says Mangauil.
    The Lono traveled into Hawaiian Homes escorted by many school groups and out to the highway on Mana Rd, stopping for lunch at Hale Kūhiō , compliments of 'Aha Pūnana Leo Preschool.  “All the parents and the kids were lined up and the first person to come out of Hawaiian Homes passed the Lono to the first little guy and he ran it all through the parking lot. They handed it off and the parents kept it going,” says Mangauil.


'    Out of town and down Mahiki (Mud Lane) they traveled to Waipi'o Valley Lookout, back through Kukuihaele Village and on to Honoka'a. “That last stretch there were probably 200 people. We just ran right through Honoka'a town right back through the Lono banner up at the park.  It was raw, it was real. It inspired the community,” says Mangauil.
Although we can never return to the time of the ancients, they have provided us with all the knowledge and wisdom necessary for the land and the people to thrive. Weaving traditional practices into contemporary life, creates a guide to healthy wholesome living that sustains the natural world we depend on for our survival. 
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The gift of love: Dr. Kit Barthel’s island legacy / Special to North Hawaii News / March 2016

8/10/2016

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     To know Dr. Kit (Christopher) Barthel is to experience the generosity of aloha that is so much a part of island life. Now retired at his long-time home in Ahualoa, over the years Barthel has quietly performed miracles in his work with troubled adolescents and their families. His own adolescence, spent in diverse, colorful Rangoon, planted a seed that eventually developed into an openness of spirit, bringing him to the islands in the early sixties. “We were integrated into the community. There was a place called Washington Place and it was a place where all the Americans stayed, but my folks were adamant that we were out in the community with the Burmese,” says Barthel.
     He returned to the U.S. for college, unsure what he was going to study, but when he took a psychology class while enrolled in Northwestern University’s business college, he found his path. Barthel went on to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Ohio State. “For the first time in my life, I was scared that I wasn't going to make it. It was an exceptional challenge,” says Barthel.

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      After an internship in Honolulu at the State Mental Hospital, Barthel returned to Ohio State. He completed his degree and set off on the first of many journeys, traveling through the South Pacific and Asia. As if wanting to drink in all the diversity on earth, travel became a regular part of Barthel’s life.  Wherever he went he drew people to him. “I was with Kit and Kenneth in Nepal and it was just amazing. He was always surrounded by a group of young boys, all chattering away with him,” says colleague Cathy Lowder.
       Returning to Honolulu after his first travel adventure, Barthel began his life-long work for the Department of Health Services’ (DHS) family courts division. As a consulting psychologist, unconstrained by the demands of the courts, Barthel was able to serve the best interests of his clients. “I wasn’t an employee of the courts. I was always with the Department of Health, which was good because nobody could tell me what to do. I’m sure at times they wished they could have gotten rid of me,” says Barthel.
     While at the DHS, he met colleagues that would become his family of friends. “I've known him for 40 years. I was a social worker at the time I met him, working for the YWCA. He is the finest counselor with youth that I've ever met. Not only in his keen perception but he went beyond the office hours. He gave them a home when they had no place to go,” says social worker colleague Eileen Lum. “He was always willing to go along with me on any screwball capers. Once we were looking for a couple of girls that ran away and we tracked them down to the Waikiki jungle. He and I were dressed in our shabbiest. In those days we were the mod squad,” she adds.

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     After adopting his Korean son, Kenneth, Barthel was given an almost unheard of sabbatical from the DHS. He found his way to `Āhualoa on Hawai'i Island, where he made his home and eventually began work for the DHS family court division in Hilo.
     A big part of Barthel’s magic is his non-judgmental nature.  “He is a very open and authentic person with everybody. He accepts everybody as they are without putting people into any kind of category. He sees the very best in every person and worked to bring out the best in every person. Whether you were his friend or whether you were seeing him as a therapist,” says Hilo colleague Cathy Lowder. These qualities endeared him to everyone he encountered. “He was very well liked by all of the judges and all the probation officers,” says Lowder.
      Barthel’s philosophy is the more love you give away, the more love you have and he seems to have an abundance. Ipo Kahele is one foster child who became a member of the family. “I met Kit when I was nine years old. He was our therapist. When I was 15 I started to live with him full time. He's been my rock my whole life. He may not be my dad by blood, but he's my dad in every essence of the word,” says Kahele, who now does mission work in Brazil.
      Along with his big aloha heart, his vast array of skills, has served him well in his work with troubled adolescents, who face extraordinary difficulties such as abuse and neglect along with the normal trials of being a teenager. “Kit was a key resource person for both the probation officers and for the foster parents, insuring that the foster homes were therapeutic in how they were working with their foster child,” says Lowder. “One of his strengths was behavior management. So he worked very close with foster parents, developing detailed behavior management plans,” she adds.

    Fortunately for many troubled teens, Barthel’s capacity for giving has been boundless. “His calendar would get so full, I’d have to call him and whine. He would relent and add one more of the kids to his calendar,” says Edie Kawai, a colleague who worked with him on Child Protective Services cases. “There are kids who are adults now that will never forget him. He literally was part of saving their lives. He is the best therapist with kids that I have ever met,” she adds.
      Through his work with the Children’s Advocacy Center in Hilo, Barthel has also left a legacy with practitioners who in turn have touched the lives of many. “There was a whole other aspect that had to do with teaching. It was a big, big thing in my life. It’s still really good. Every time I go to the Children’s Advocacy Center in Hilo, it’s like going home,” says Barthel.
     Barthel retired five years ago, but his bountiful legacies live on. This was made clear to him when he attended First Friday in Honoka’a. “It was the first one that they ever had. People would stop me and say, ‘Oh you're Dr. Kit’. All these relationships. That was surprising and really pleasing,” says Barthel.
     Our island’s spirit works through people like Kit Barthel, who in turn help the aloha spirit continue to flourish on Hawai'i Island.
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To Be Kupuna: Ma'ulili Dickson  / Special to North Hawai'i News / November 2015

8/8/2016

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    It is said that the ulili (sandpiper) was a sacred messenger that provided the first Polynesian voyagers with a sign that guided them to land and like his namesake, Ma`ulili Dickson has quietly shown the way with his actions, spending a lifetime quietly working for the benefit of the community through the Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club (WHCC), Waimea YMCA and the voyaging canoes.
        Dickson grew up Moanalua, nestled in an extended family spanning three generations, where he was given a solid foundation in traditional Hawaiian culture and values. “I was raised by all of them and taught by all of them. My grandmother on my father's side kept me close to her and she taught me about the culture and history of our family. From when I was young, it gave me a strong sense of community and how I had to help and assist, not just ride along. How I had to be a part of making it better or keeping it going,” says Dickson.
   While growing up on O'ahu, Dickson spent most summers on Hawai'i Island. “My grand uncle, E. Woods Low, (son of Eben Low), used to bring me here to Hawai'i Island. He was born and raised in Kohala and Waimea,” says Dickson.
        While attending the College of San Mateo in the mid 60s, Dickson studied tele-communications, but soon found his passion in culinary arts, a skill which he would later use on his many canoe voyages.  After a tour of duty in Vietnam, he returned to O'ahu, but Hawai'i Island and the family compound at Paniau was calling him back.  
       In the early 80s Dickson had settled on Hawaiʽi Island and was working as a manager for Parker Ranch, when one day Kalani Schutte (then on the county council) came by and told him, “Put in your notice. You’re going to come work for me.” This began Dickson’s legislative career as the executive assistant to Schutte who became council chairman. Soon he was engrossed in legislative processes from the county level to the federal.
        At the end of Schutte’s term, Dickson returned to Waimea to become the Executive Director of the newly formed YMCA, where he was able to develop sailing, diving and camping programs. “This was a good opportunity to engage the community in outdoor and ocean education,” Dickson says. “We were in the community doing stuff with the kids and it felt great,” he added.

Hawaiian Civic Clubs
       In 1917 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianiole saw the need to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian culture and began the Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu. Since then a total of 58 clubs have formed throughout the islands and on the mainland, with nine clubs on Hawai'i Island.
       The primary efforts of the WHCC involve regular fundraisers to support their scholarship fund (preschool to adults), educational experiences in and out of the classroom, drafting of resolutions and bills in support of furthering community health and well-being and providing food at various events. The club also finds strength in making connections. “The Civic Club is a kokua organization that helps support all the different other entities that are accomplishing the same kind of goals that we are,” Dickson says.
       One of the larger projects the WHCC participated in was the development of a cultural education program at Pu’ukoholā Heiau, as part of the 200th anniversary celebration in 1991. “We wanted to maintain [control of] the cultural aspects so we created Na Aikane o Pu’ukoholā Heiau,” says Dickson.  
       The focal point for Dickson’s continuing community efforts is Makali’i, for which he serves as quarter master and assists with educational programs, including Mala`ai’s monthly super kitchen events. “On the Hawaiian Civic Club side of it, we're helping the community with healthy eating. On the canoe side of it we're looking at eventually having these youth and the Mala'ai garden package items that can go on the voyage, that are healthy for us to eat,” says Dickson.
       For Ma`ulili and many others like him, the way forward is through the continuing education and involvement of our youth to perpetuate the positive values of Hawaiian culture that will live on in the hearts of our children.

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